According to GQ, your shirt is supposed to complement your soul, not match it. If I were you, I might go with a pastel, although that obviously depends on whether your soul is more of a glossy or matte black.

That is about as good as when I'd see patients who had a cold and they would describe their nasal drainage or sputum as 'the same color as the green shirt you are wearing'....The pretty sage green shirt went straight to Goodwill... UGH, the nerve of patients!

If this gal is compliant in adherency to her therapy, my guess is that it's time to get out the dipstick. It sounds as if her tank level is getting a little low, no matter how correct she is in telling her colors.

As a med student I saw a patient with encephalopathy, and the first time I met her she told me I had a "devil face". The next morning she told me my face was beautiful. My presentation to my attending that morning was that she was much improved, since she finally correctly described me!

Welcome to my whining!

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